Dean Ornish Quotes

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each other, and even cry together.

I can be maternal with my friends.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

It is a heartening experience to know that you are loved and being missed.

I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our mother. So the child's first experience in this lifetime at the beginning, I think that immense affection from other is in our blood. So therefore, the whole rest of life, other people show you smile, genuine sort of closeness feeling. You feel happy. Even animals also like that.

I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

I love that there are others interacting with me.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.

As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

If you have a happy friend, your happiness goes up fifteen times.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.